Bike Summit Toronto
Summary Speech by Dr. Kevin Krizek

Bio
Kevin J. Krizek is Associate Professor of Planning, Design, and Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado. He currently serves as Director of the PhD Program in Design and Planning and heads the Active Communities / Transportation (ACT) Research Group, a collection of students and researchers studying how land use-transportation policies influence household residential location decisions and travel behavior. He has been the PI for over $1 million of externally funded research on bicycling specific projects, including PI on the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program-a product of the US Federal Transportation Legislation, SAFETEALU-to evaluate the walking and bicycling impacts of the $25 million projects for four pilot communities. Other bicycling specific research has focused on the safety elements, economic benefits, health dimensions, and general patterns of use related to travel behavior. Dr. Krizek is a founding editor of the Journal of Transport and Land Use, chair of TRB's Committee on Telecommunications and Travel and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Planning Association. He is the co-author or editor of two books and over thirty published articles (most recent book recently published, Planning for Place and Plexus: Metropolitan Land Use and Transport). His doctoral research examining relationships between household travel and urban form won the Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in the Field of Planning from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 2001


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Keywords: bike summit 2009; Kevin Krizek; Toronto; cycling; walking; active transportation; planning; Glenn McKnight

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